corpse-mirror
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns

corpse-mirror

42 1/4 x 53 inches
Jasper Johns

Corpse and Mirror
(ULAE 169), 1976

color screenprint on Nishinouchi Kizuki Kozo Paper with Deckle Edge
42 1/4 x 53 inches
edition: 65 with 8 AP's & 4 PP's
signed & Dated in Pencil "J Johns '76" lower right. Numbered in Pencil lower right.
with the Simca blindstamp lower right recto.
printed by Kenjiro Nonaka, Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada
published by Jasper Johns and Simca Print Artists, Inc., 1976
© 2024 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Literature
Richard Field, Jasper Johns Prints 1970-1977, Wesleyan University, Middletown, 1978, Catalogue Reference 211, p. 105, another impression reproduced in black and white
Shigeo Chiba, Jasper Johns Prints Exhibition 1960–1989, Tokyo, 1990, Japan Art and Culture Association/Kokusai Geijutsu Bunka Shinkokai, n.p., plate 88, another impression reproduced.
Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, another impression reproduced plate 32, pg. 295.
Riva Castleman Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, New York: The Museum of Modern Art; Boston: New York Graphic Society, Books/Little Brown and Company, 1986, pg 107, another impression reproduced in full-page color.
Susan Lorence, Technique and Collaboration in the Prints of Jasper Johns, Castelli Gallery, New York, 1996, Catalogue Reference 21, n.p., another impression reproduced in black and white

Exhibited
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, May 19–Aug 19, 1986, another impression exhibited.
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Prints Exhibition 1960–1989, Traveled to The Seibu Department Store; Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Isetan Department Store, Niigata, Japan; Isetan Department Store, Urawa, Japan; Isetan Department Store, Matsudo, Japan; and Isetan Department Store, Shizuoka, Japan, another impression exhibited. Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Selected Museum Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Broad Collection, Los Angeles

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Author and Project Director at the Wildenstein Institute Roberta Bernstein observes: "the crosshatchings are the first Jasper Johns paintings that can be properly called abstract, though they are more like drawings than the gestural abstractions of Jackson Pollock or Jack Tworkovand they bristle with citations from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, the Surrealistsand other early-twentieth-century figures."